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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1412912, member: 19065&quot;]<i></i></p><p><i>Just an opinion</i> only gets you so far, and so far you&#039;ve only fallen in the same erroneous pit as those who mislabel DC a counterfeiter. You clearly haven&#039;t enough facts to have any objective understanding to discuss this here. What&#039;s more, your shockingly admitted pleasure to see someone whose hardwork, originality, passion and success be undermined because when it comes to money and you haven&#039;t enough to play with, you&#039;d rather see someone who made a successful effort be brought down to your own poor level of self standards. You further implore the very notion of what DC has worked hard to avoid, creating counterfeits, creating mass produced dreck for profit and potentially in large numbers to his own peril should those mintages be further misconstrued as an attempt to subjevert the currency. Your comment isn&#039;t an opinion, it&#039;s a deplorable diatribe exposing a personal distortion of reality! </p><p><br /></p><p>The skewed logic of this is that you&nbsp; come off sounding revengeful at the fact that everything in the world&nbsp; isn&#039;t accessible to you at low low big box-style retail bargain prices and rather than&nbsp; work for something until you can afford it you opt for the cop-out&nbsp; excuse to air your own sad state of affairs. Readers can only speculate about the root of your anger, but it&#039;s clear it touched you in a financial sense. However, for you to bring it here just because you crafted some sick idea to single out someone who is honest, hardworking, original, and making a return off a private business venture doing something he loves, gives you no right to wish ill on another&#039;s status or success&nbsp; because you lack the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>FYI, go back and check the links provided in this thread. <i>Please read </i>about the fakes that already exist of Carr&#039;s own works which have presented a challenge to his operation, success and for those collectors seeking his works on the secondary market. You really seem to be missing out on a lot of points here. </p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, your understanding of his choice of mintages DC creates also needs some adjustment. How much he decides to mint can be attributed to a few combined factors, like: how much starting capital he has to get an idea into production. That alone limits supply and the demand from his collector base does the rest to quickly buy up the inventory as they demand and seek his work. This is every bit as much as the same thing as collectors who snap up new US Mint offerings as they roll out, only the US Mint can produce enormous mintages even if demand isn&#039;t present at the time a coin goes on sale. A national mint happens to have the budgets and materials and sales projections to work from. </p><p><br /></p><p>Other factors, how many individual collectors and dealers he must serve. By his success we understand that he has an idea of how many individual buyers he has and how many bulk buyers he has to create a mintage to fulfill their needs without loosing his profit due to overhead and labor, etc.&nbsp; Furthermore, please appraise yourself of the discussion we&#039;ve already had in this thread, where we suggest the mintages are also kept low, not artificially to suggest demand nor to inspire a profitable sell out, but rather to avoid the issue that his work could be misconstrued as attempts to&nbsp; subvert the currency by minting too many, which is something that led to the downfall of the NORFED operation. </p><p><br /></p><p>The depths of ignorance on this topic and the willingness to share such ignorance with the public is just astonishing! With such a grudge as yours, so confused and bent out of shape about the&nbsp; economics of this, perhaps you&#039;d be better suited to a hobby other than numismatics, something that won&#039;t impede in your sensibilities and&nbsp; budget to turn your attitude so sour against fellow collectors for the&nbsp; things they enjoy collecting. It is indeed about the money as you say, just not for the reason you tried to level here behind the guise of opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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